TITLE V
Taking Over the Prosecution of a Case and Surveillance; Execution of Foreign Criminal-Court Decisions
CHAPTER THREE
Execution of Foreign Criminal-Court Decisions
Prerequisites
§ 64. (5) Moreover, the execution of a decision by a foreign court imposing a fine or forfeiture shall only be admissible if its collection in Austria may be expected and the person concerned has been heard, to the extent that he/she can be contacted.
Chapter III
Recognition and Enforcement of Judicial Decisions
Part Four
Enforcement of Pecuniary Sanctions
Subdivision One
Enforcement of Decisions Taken by Other Member States
Prerequisites
§ 53. (2) The following shall be considered to decisions pursuant to para. 1:
1. the decision of another judicial authority, especially of a public prosecutor,
if the person concerned was given the opportunity of bringing the matter
before a court that also has criminal-law competences, as well as
2. the decision of a court that also has criminal-law competences which was seized with an appeal against a decision that was taken by another than a judicial authority for a punishable act, administrative trespass or breach of
(3) A pecuniary sanction shall be
1. financial penalties,
2. an obligation imposed by the same decision to pay compensation to the victim, if the victim did not have the possibility to submit civil-law claims in the course of the proceedings and the court took action by exercising its criminal-law competences,
3. the obligation to refund the costs of the proceedings leading to the decision, or
4. an obligation imposed in the same decision to pay an amount of money into a public account or to an organization supporting victims.
Orders relating to property rights as well as court decisions on private-law claims
shall not be considered to be pecuniary sanctions (§ 2 item 11).
1. Los Estados Partes harán efectivas las multas u órdenes de decomiso decretadas por la Corte en virtud de la Parte VII, sin perjuicio de los derechos de terceros de buena fe y de conformidad con el procedimiento establecido en su derecho interno.
2. El Estado Parte que no pueda hacer efectiva la orden de decomiso adoptará medidas para cobrar el valor del producto, los bienes o los haberes cuyo decomiso hubiere decretado la Corte, sin perjuicio de los derechos de terceros de buena fe.
3. Los bienes, o el producto de la venta de bienes inmuebles o, según proceda, la venta de otros bienes que el Estado Parte obtenga al ejecutar una decisión de la Corte serán transferidos a la Corte.